EDUCATION

Rockefeller University, New York, New York, Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, also qualifications in Linguistics and in Statistics; "The Animated Word: Modification of Meaning by Context," George A. Miller, Dissertation Director, 1976-1981.

Winner of the 1995 Faculty Member of the Year Award, Office of the Assistant Dean for Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs, the Chicano/Hispano Student Resource Center, and the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center

Selected to participate in "Creating a Vision" Conferences for community leaders, 1994

Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Hispanic-Jewish Dialogue, 1994-1997

Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Chicano/Hispano Education Coalition, 1994

Invited to participate in the National Hispanic Leadership Conference; attended Conference October 27-30, 1994, Chicago, IL

Selected as a University of Arizona Faculty Fellow, Office of the President, 1994

Appointed to the Tucson Unified School District Latino Advisory Committee, 1993-1997

Elected to the HPAC (Hispanic Professional Action Committee) Executive Board, 1992-2000

Appointed to the Arizona Governors Task Force on Educational Reform, Research Team, 1992; 1993

Elected to the State Board of Directors, Arizona Educational Research Organization, 1992; 1993

Honored by my alma mater, Clark University, at "Fifty Years of Women at Clark" conference, sponsored by the Alumni Association and the Department of Womens Studies.

Invited to speak on "How Clark University Shaped My Life and Career," 1992

Selected to participate in "Arizona Dialogues: Teacher Education in a Democracy," sponsored by the Arizona Board of Regents and by the Education Commission of the States, 1992

Winner of the Wakonse West Regional Teaching Award, 1992

Winner of the New Traditional Student Teaching Award, 1992

Identified by the Arizona Ambassadors (a volunteer student organization) as an "outstanding faculty member"; selected for the ClassCats program, a class visitation program for prospective students at the University of Arizona, 1992

Elected Vice President of El Concilio, a coalition of Hispanic organizations, 1991

Elected President of the Arizona Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, University of Arizona, 1990; 1991

Elected to the State Executive Board, and appointed Chair of the Critical Issues Commission, Arizona Association of Chicanos for Higher Education, 1989; 1990

Received three statewide Distinguished Service Awards from the Arizona Association of Chicanos for Higher Education, 1989; 1990

Selected as one of five most promising psychologists in the U.S. by the American Psychological Association, Young Fellows in Psychology Program (selection made once every four years), 1984

Reyna VF, Brainerd CJ. Fuzzy-trace theory and false memory: New frontiers. J Exp Child Psychol. 1998;71:194-209. [This article was part of a special journal issue devoted to a theory developed by my colleagues and I, which also included commentaries written by ten influential investigators.]

Reyna VF, Brainerd CJ. Fuzzy-trace theory: An interim synthesis. Learning and Individual Differences. 1995;7:1-75. [The first issue of 1995 was devoted to this invited target article on a theory developed by my colleagues and I.]

Reyna VF, Brainerd CJ. Fuzzy-trace theory: Some foundational issues. Learning and Individual Differences. 1995;7:145-162. [The second issue of 1995 was devoted to eleven commentaries on the theory by scholars in learning and memory. The present article is a response to those commentaries.]

Books

Book Chapters

Reyna VF, Adam MB, Walsh ME, LeCroy CW, Brainerd CJ. The development of judgment and decision-making from childhood through adolescence. Invited chapter for J. Jacobs, P. Klacynski (eds). The development of children's and adolescents' judgment and decision-making. In Press.

Brainerd CJ and Reyna, VF. Childrens retention of true and false memories: The role of trace decay. Paper presented at: Biennial meeting of the Society of Research and Childrens Development; April 15-18, 1999; Albuquerque, NM.

Reyna VF, Fischhoff B. Honoring the influence of Amos Tversky: A memoriam by his students. Symposium organized for the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting; November 3-6, 1996; Chicago, IL.

Reyna VF. Intuitive thought and the development of numerical reasoning. [Symposium on New Perspectives on the Development of Intuition.] Paper presented at: Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development; March, 1993; New Orleans, LA.

Reyna VF. Reasoning-remembering relationships in the development of working memory. Invited paper presented as part of the symposium "Development of working memory," XIth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development; 1991; Minneapolis, MN.

Reyna VF. Cognitive illusions in judgment and decision making: Childhood through adolescence. Invited paper presented as part of the symposium "The Development of Childrens Decision-Making Behavior," Society for Research in Child Development; 1991; Seattle, WA.

Reyna VF, Brainerd CJ. Development of forgetting: A disintegration/redintegration theory. Presented as part of the symposium on "Childrens Ability to Remember Witnessed Events: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives," Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development; 1989; Kansas City, MO.

Reyna VF. The effects of formal pretraining on the solution of verbally stated problems. Paper presented at: the Mount Holyoke Research Conference; 1975; South Hadley, MA.

Regional

Reyna VF. How do we make decisions? Paper presented at: 2000 Arizona Chapter Scientific Meeting of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine; November 3-5 2000; Scottsdale, AZ.

Instructor for undergraduate course in "Child Development," a service course required for teacher certification, University of Arizona, Department of Educational Psychology, every semester but Fall, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994

Instructor for undergraduate course in "Educational Psychology: Learning," a service course required for teacher certification, University of Arizona, Department of Educational Psychology, every semester, Fall 1988-Spring 1994

Supervisor for Students involved in independent research projects, masters theses, and doctoral dissertation research, as Director of the Laboratory for Communication and Judgment, University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Psychology, 1981-1987

Instructor for graduate course entitled "Judgment and Decision Making," University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Psychology, 1983, 1984, 1986

Instructor for undergraduate course entitled "Choice and the Framing of Decisions," University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Psychology, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987

Supervisor for New York Academy of Sciences Student Internship Program, the Rockefeller University, Experimental Psychology Laboratory; selected five high school students to participate in a research apprenticeship program under my supervision; awarded a grant by the New York Academy of Sciences to continue the program, 1977-1980

Biomedical Engineering Students

National Institutes of Health and Disadvantaged High
School Student Medical Student Research Program

(Purpose: To stimulate among disadvantaged high school students an interest in pursuing careers in biomedical research and the health professions.)

Esther Du

Alexia Puig

INSTEP Students

Ann Marie Contreras

Jose Leos

Michelle Thornsberry

Arrington Bell

SERVICE

National Activities for U.S. Department of Education (Selected)

Launched new national research initiatives in cognition and learning, reading comprehension, early cognitive development, and evidence-based practice guidelines, October 2001-Present

Developed, implemented, and directed a new peer review process for Education's research agency, October 2001-Present

Selected and oversaw a National Panel on LIteracy for Language Minority Children and YOuth, October 2001-Present

Represented the Department on the Anti-terrorism Committee of the President's Office of Science and technology Policy, October 2001-Present

Represented the Department at the 2nd Annual Convention with Education Leaders. "No Child Left Behind" tour across America, March 13, 2002. Denver, Colorado

Addressed national boards concerning new federal initiatives in research (e.g., National Academy of Sciences board on Testing and Assessment; National Educational Research Policy and Priorities board), 2001-Present

Addressed national conferences concerning the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and new research initiatives (e.g., American Educational Research Association; Society for Prevention Research), 2001-Present

Presented addresses as part of a series of symposia that the Department of Education is sponsoring about the use of sicentifically based research in education. Audience included executive branch personnel, Hill staff, and interested representatives from organizations around the country, 2002-Present

Selected speakers (in addtion to President George W. Bush, the first Lady Laura Bush, Secretary Colin Powell, and Secretary Rod Paige who also spoke at the event) and organized White House Conference on Character and Community, June 19, 2002

Family Care Issues Committee of the Regents Commission on the Status of Women, 1992-1996

Centennial Achievement Awards Committee, 1991; 1994

Special Course Fees Committee, 1991-1993

Regent Reception Committee, 1990

Served on Planning Committee, Arizona Association for Chicanos in Higher Education, 1989-1992.

Served as a member of the Research Committee, University of Texas at Dallas, 1983-1985

Chaired Graduate Admissions Committee, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, 1983-1985,significantly increased the enrollment of minority students and, simultaneously, raised GRE scores to the highest level in the university)

Served as a member of three doctoral program curriculum and evaluation committees: Language and Cognition, Disorders of Communication and Learning, and Social Aspects of Communication, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, 1983-1987

Served as member of the David Bruton Lecture Series Committee, School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, 1982-1984

Served as member of the Education Committee (developed curriculum for prospective teachers), School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, 1981-1987

Public Outreach and Other Service

Participant in Symposium on Arizonas Children, Sponsored by the Dean of the Graduate College; Institute for Children, Youth and Families; Steele Memorial Childrens Research Center; United Ways "First Focus on Kids." Tucson, Arizona (April 20, 2001)

Invited Participant in the Center for Advanced TeleSysMatics (CAT): Next Generation Network Centric Systems Workshop on Next Generation Network Centric Systems: Research Challenges and Opportunities. Sponsored by Center for Advanced TeleSysMatics (CAT): Next Generation Network Centric Systems, University of Arizona; Virtual Development Center, University of Arizona; and Raytheon Missile Systems. Tucson, Arizona, January 18-19, 2001

Assisted an interdisciplinary team in public health, family studies, and law enforcement, as well as representatives from a variety of city and county agencies, in preparing a grant application to the Centers for Disease Control assessing interventions to reduce violent behavior among youth, 1994-1995

Invited, University of Arizona Community Forums, sponsored by the Offices of the President and Provost, 1994-1995

Attended workshop and lecture by Dr. Manning Marable on "The Multicultural University," 1994

Invited to address the Association for Women Faculty on dual roles for minority women faculty, 1992

Attended the first annual Association of Minority Education Students Reception (member of A.M.E.S. since its inception), 1992

Invited to speak to the Greater Tucson Leadership Councils emerging business and community leaders on testing ("Why Test?") Craycroft Elementary School.

Participated in the Collegiate Leadership Conference on Education (for undergraduates and graduate students throughout the University) sponsored by the Universitys Student Services Office; presented a lecture on Politics and Education, and directed a workshop, 1992

Invited to speak to minority students in the College of Nursing on strategies for academic success, 1992

Participated in the College of Educations "Student/Faculty Dialogue: Focus on Minority Retention Issues," 1991

Lecturer, G.A.T. Orientation, University Teaching Center, presented workshops and lectures on grading and similar topics, 1990-1994

Participated in awards and commencement ceremonies for minority students, 1989-Present

Served on Planning Committee, Arizona Association for Chicanos in Higher Education, 1989-1992

Organized an advising meeting for all undergraduate psychology majors, and wrote and distributed a pamphlet on academic strategies, 1983

Organized a faculty networking meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society for recruitment of minority students, 1983, 1984, 1987

Participated in a special orientation for minority students at University of Texas at Dallas, 1983,1984

Contributed to the minority Student Handbook used for recruitment of minority students to University of Texas at Dallas, 1983

Contacted faculty and staff at Southern Methodist University through annual conferences on Hispanics in America to arrange cooperative efforts at recruiting minority students, 1983, 1984

Recruited minority students for graduate study at University of Texas at Dallas from Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania, 1981

Consulting Editor

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Archives of Internal Medicine

Child Development

Cognitive Psychology

Consciousness and Cognition

Developmental Psychology

Developmental Review

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Journal of Applied Psychology

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Journal of Economic Psychology

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Journal of Memory and Language

Journal of Political Psychology

Medical Decision Making

Memory

Memory and Cognition

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Psychological Bulletin

Psychological Science

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Social Cognition

Editorial Boards

Child Development, 1996-Present

Developmental Review, 2000-Present

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2000-Present

Medical Decision Making, 1998-Present

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992

Book Proposal Reviewer

American Psychological Association

Cambridge University Press

The MIT Press

Tenure Reviewer

Loyola University Chicago

Middlebury College

Rutgers University

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of Nebraska

University of North Carolina

Grant Reviewer

Binational Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health (see above)

National Science Foundation

Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program

Economics Program

Human Cognition and Perception Program

Law and Social Sciences Program

Social and Developmental Psychology Program

U.S. Department of Agricultures Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

U.S. Department of Education Graduate Professional Opportunities Program (evaluated colleges and universities to determine recipients of federal grants)

Guest Editor

Developmental Review, special issue.

Consultant

Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning

Kellogg Foundation (assessment of grant to PPEP-TEC to improve education for migrant workers and other at-risk students using technological innovations)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (on risk communication and education)

Conference/Program Reviewer

National/International

Cognitive Science Society
National Association of Chicano Studies
Society for Medical Decision Making
Society for Research in Child Development